Beijing Olympics 2008

After closing ceremony of Beijing Olympics Navtej Kohli had rejoiced during the Paralympics opening ceremony and feels that be great moment when he was there to cheer handicapped sportsman. But Navtej Kohli also want to ask that why the Paralympics are not fabulous as like as Olympics. Its need to be big concerns when we are promising to live equally.
After giving grand opening and closing ceremony of Beijing Olympics 2008 China again gives big attraction to world’s eye on the glittering ceremony of Paralympics on date 7 sep 2008 and the place was "Bird's Nest" National Stadium with the message that all life has value and dignity.
Its be happen from era to era that handicapped had suffered negligence and discrimination from the society but Paralympics were starts to make a aim of humanity and peace and motto is "One World, One Dream" and "Transcendence, Integration, Equality." Ceremony of Paralympics was started on 8:00 pm (1200 GMT ) after Dynamic countdown . Fireworks made the stadium rocky and dark black sky as like flag-waving crowd screamed and shouted in anticipation.
While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave their respectable witness with Chinese President Hu Jintao and gave big clap to the athletics entering in the futuristic stadium with the great roar of proud and happiness. Moreover more than 91,000 crowd were to cheers this great moment. But there are something that noticed by everyone and can make China unhappy . This was when team of Iran and Taiwan was entering the crowd was clapping and enjoying with shouting slogan of joy and proud , but when China team entered into the ground suddenly shouting anti china slogan and shouted . "China. Go!” Flashlights were zooming the ground and people are enjoying with stunning break drop to the three-hour show. Near about 300 girls dressed white color
Tens of thousands of flashlights formed a stunning backdrop to the three-hour show, during which 300 deaf girls performed a sign language dance dressed in white.
Twelve-year-old ballet student Li Yue, who lost her left leg in the devastating Sichuan earthquake earlier this year, captivated the crowd, dancing from her wheelchair.
Chinese President Hu Jintao then officially declared the 13th Paralympic Games open before the crowd watched spellbound as gold medallist Hou Bin, in a wheelchair, pulled himself up on a rope to the roof of the stadium to light the flame in the show's denouement.
More than 4,000 competitors from nearly 150 countries and regions will battle for 472 gold medals in 20 sports at the eye-catching venues used for last month's Olympics such as the "Bird's Nest" and the Water Cube.
"There are more countries than ever, more sports than ever and more athletes than ever. This is great news for the Paralympic movement," International Paralympic Committee President Philip Craven said earlier Saturday.
Host China, which topped the medals table at the 2004 Athens Paralympics with 63 golds ahead of Britain and Canada, is widely expected to dominate again -- and even more comprehensively than at last month's Olympics.
Aside from China's seemingly inevitable domination of the Games, much attention will focus on South Africa's double amputee track sensation Oscar Pistorius -- dubbed "Blade Runner" due to the specially adapted carbon fibre blades with which he has won a host of titles.
Carrying the flag at the opening ceremony for South Africa was Natalie du Toit, who finished 16th in the women's 10 kilometres marathon swim in last month's Olympics.
The 20 sports at the Paralympics, which ends on September 17, include athletics, swimming, powerlifting, wheelchair fencing and two versions of football -- five-a-side and seven-a-side -- as well as the lesser-known goalball and boccia.
China's motto for the Paralympics, comparing it with the Olympics, is: "Two Games with Equal Splendour."
Although China will pull out all the stops to produce a stunning event, the Paralympics takes place in a country in which the disabled have long suffered discrimination in social, education and employment sectors.
Authorities have made Beijing more friendly for disabled people by, for example, setting up the country's first fleet of easy-access taxis and making famous tourist spots such as the Great Wall accessible to wheelchairs.
And huge efforts have been made to show that China is treating the Paralympics with as much importance as the Olympics, including keeping draconian anti-pollution measures in place.
Like the Olympics, the Paralympics have not been free of scandal and there will again be a focus in Beijing to stamp out any cheating.
But the IPC's Craven said he was looking forward to clean Games.
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